While we can't recreate energy sources that took hundreds of millions of years to accumulate, we can re-imagine how the society using this resource is configured.

For one thing, we need to get beyond the us/them, black/white thinking.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The1/0 of sentience.

This is because it's the function of culture to unite the community into a larger social organism, based on the same languages, rules and measures.

Though while organisms are a function of the centripetal dynamic pulling toward the center, ecosystems are a function of the equalizing nature of the field.

While powerful individuals and groups tend to accumulate as much power as possible, invariably these situations overshoot, as the bureaucratic inertia overwhelms any strategic aptitude.

While the West is currently functioning as the monolith, driven by a banking system predicated on financial growth, the problem of treating the economic medium as the only criteria, the effects is analogous to a metastatic cancer.

Consequently the response of the rest of the world is to function as more of an ecosystem, where the various countries and regions recognize the value of partnership, over domination.

The evidence of this political flexibility will be evident over the next decade.

The fact is that people are simply not evolved to the point of treating the world as an organism, aka, globalization, but need to accept it is still an ecosystem, where the cycles of growth, consolidation and renewal will prevail over any singular vision.